INDIANAPOLIS (Court TV) — Alleged bad behavior by a juror forced a judge to declare a mistrial in the case of a woman accused of killing her young daughter — meaning the entire trial will have to start over.
Toni McClure appears in court on June 22, 2026. (WRTV)
Toni McClure, 31, is charged with murder, criminal confinement resulting in bodily injury and battery on a person less than 14 years old in the death of her daughter, 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty.
Welty was found unconscious and malnourished at McClure’s home on April 9, 2024. She weighed only 21 pounds, had sunken eyes, a bruise on her face and fecal matter matted in her hair and on her feet. First responders described seeing lice or other small insects crawling on her face and hair and found bites or sores on her stomach…